Livre de Bonnes Meurs
A French illuminated manuscript of moral instruction, the Livre de Bonnes Meurs, produced around 1430 and probably made for a lay reader, now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its framed miniatures sit in blue and gold borders beside French text, showing a seated enthroned ruler flanked by two attendants, a tree with a naked figure and a robed figure, and a fiery battle scene, with pen-flourished initials and marginal foliage a designer could borrow for decorative framing.
